Working With The Animal Totems

INDEX OF: Native American Legends, Myths and Lore

Native American Legends, Myths and Lore

"In ages past, our old ones were the storytellers. This was the way things were passed along to the generations that followed. For this reason the aged people made it a point to remember every detail so they could relate it at a later time. They were the word and picture carriers making history and spirtual values alive and important. In recent times we have made our old ones think they are not so important. We spoof their stories and make them feel foolish. The truth is that we are ignorant of what is precious and how to 'a da li he li tse di -- appreciate age. Rigidity can creep in and set even the young minds if there are no soft memories, no laughter, no times too deep for tears. Age is grace -- a time too valuable to waste."

A Cherokee Feast of Days - Daily Meditations, Joyce Sequichie Hifler

Index of Native American Indian Legends, Myths & Lore

1. A Legend of Devil's Tower [Sioux]
2. Eagle Stories
3. Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun [Cherokee]
4. Cricket and Cougar [Alta, Baja California]
5. Ghost of White Deer [Chickasaw]
6. Why the Opossum's Tail is Bare [Cherokee]
7. The Adventures of Ictinike
8. Origin of the Medicine Man [Passamaquoddy]
9. Origin of Light [Inuit]
10. The Snake with the Big Feet
11. Raven's Great Adventure
12. Spider Rock [Dine/Navajo]
13. The White Faced Bear
14. The First Fire [Cherokee]
15. Origin of the Thunderbird [Passamaquoddy]
16. Why the North Star Stands Still [Paiute]
17. Dance of the Dead [Luiseño]
18. How Mosquitos Came to Be [Tlinget]
19. The Origin of the Pleiades [Omomdaga, Iroquois]
20. The Bat [Modoc]
21. The Invisible One [Micmac]
22. The Man Who Acted as the Sun [Bellacoola]
23. Journeys in Spirit-Land
24. Master-Carpenter and South-East
25. In the Beginning of the Nisqually World [Puget Sound]
26. How the Raven Helped the Ancient People [Puget Sound]
27. The Stone-Shield [Cherokee]
28. Banshee of the Bad Lands [Ponka]
29. Cloud Catcher and the Moon Woman [Ojibwa]
30. Creation of Summer and Winter [Acoma]
31. The Legend of the Dream Catcher [Lakota]
32. Totem Animals
33. Face Painting [Sioux]
34. Finding Your Animal Totem
35. Bird and Serpent Worship and Symbols
36. Origin of Animals [Apache]
37. Prey-Gods/Fetishes [Zuni]
38. Sacred Otter [Blackfoot]
39. Prey-Gods
40. Thunder Gods [Cherokee]
41. Tutokanula and Tisayac
42. The Well-Baked Man [Pima]
43. The Origin of Curing Ceremonies [Apache]
44. Creation of First Man and First Woman [Navajo]
45. The Old Woman of the Spring [Cheyenne]
46. Playing a Trick On the Moon [Snoqualmie]
47. The Scabby One Lights the Sky [Toltec]
48. Sun Teaches Veeho a Lesson [Cheyenne]
49. A Gust of Wind [Ojibwa]
50. How Chipmunks Got Their Stripes [Seneca, Iroquois]
51. The Faster [Winnebago]
52. Who is Strongest [Zuni]
53. Rolling Skull [Zuni]
54. The Girl Who Married a Dog [Cheyenne]
55. The Dog Husband [Quinault]
56.Rock Monster Eagle and Monster Slayer
57. In Cahoots with Coyote
58. The Sun, Moon and Stars [Navajo]
59. Diyin Dine'é [Holy People] [Navajo]
60. The Hooghan of First Man [Navajo]
61. Changing Woman [Navajo]
62. Monster Slayer [Navajo]
63. The Blessingway [Navajo]
64. The Stretching Tree [Chilcotin]
65. How the Fly Saved the River [Anishnabeg]
66. Sky Has Fallen
67. The Big Turtle's War Party [Pawnee]
68. Rabbit and Moon Man
69. Rabbit and Otter
70. The Legend of the Warbonnet
71.The Theft From The Sun [Blackfoot]
72. Cannibal Basket Woman [Upper Skaggit]
73. Eagle Feather
74. Thunderbird [Tillamook]
75. Traditional Talking Stick [Cherokee}
76. Beaver and Frog Woman
77. Seagull and Raven
78. White Buffalo [Lakota]
79. Cannibal Woman's Sister Eats Her Last Meal
80. Coyote and the Rolling Rock
81. How the Bear Lost his Tail
82. Big Long Man's Corn Patch
83.Buffalo and the Mouse
84. The Magic Arrows
85. The First Moccasins
86. Men Visit The Sky [Seminole]
87. The Great Flood
88. Puma and the Bear [Ottawa]
89. Fire Race [Algonquin]
90. How the Rabbit Lost his Tail
91. Coyote Kills a Giant
92. Rabbit Calls a Truce [Algonquin]
93.Bears Lodge [Kiowa]
94. Raccoon and the Blind Men
95. The Lizard Hand [Yokuts]
96. The Empounded Water [Malecite]
97. The Bird Whose Wings Made Wind [Micmac]
98. The Twins Alter the Book of Life [Winnebago]
99. The Earthdiver [Mono]
100. The Flood [Zuni]
101. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky [Seneca]
102. Theft of Light [Tsimshian]
103. Release of Animals [Comanche]
104. The Girls Who Wished to Marry the Stars [Ojibwa]
105. The Girl Enticed to the Sky [Arapaho]
106. The Piqued Buffalo-wife [Blackfoot]
107. The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing [Sioux]
108. Two Ghostly Lovers [Sioux]
109. Wakiash and the First Totem [Kwakiutl]
110. The Bear and His Wife [Haida]
111. The Neglectful Mother [Cochiti]
112. A Fish Story [Tewa]
113. The Meeting of Wild Animals [Tsimshian]
114. Butterflies [Papago]
115. The Snake Brothers [Sioux]
116. The Dogs Hold an Election [Sioux]
117. Why the Owl Has Big Eyes [Iroquois]
118. The Owl Husband [Passamaquoddy]
119. The Girl Who Married the Rattlesnake [Pomo]
120. How the Crow Came to be Black[Sioux]
121. Origin of the Gnawing Beaver [Haida]
122. Coyote Dances With a Star [Cheyenne]
123. The Seige of the Courthouse Rock [Sioux]
124. How the Coyote Got his Cunning [Karok]
125. Land of the Dead [Serrano]
126. Doing a Trick with Eyeballs [Cheyenne]
127. A Cheyenne Blanket [Pawnee]
128. How to Scare a Bear[Tewa]
129. Glooscap Grants Three Wishes [Algonquin]
130. How the People Got Arrowheads [Shasta]
131. Coyote Takes Water From the Frog People [Kalapuya]
132. Coyote & Wasichu [Sioux]
133. Turkey Makes Corn and Coyote Plants it [Apache]
134. Tolowim Woman and Buttefly Man [Maidu]
135. The Warrior Maiden [Oneida]
136. Spotted Eagle and Black Crow [Sioux]
137. The Magic Horse of Ku-suk-seai [Pawnee]
138. Why the Stars are in the Sky [Eskimo]
139. Mother Eagle and the Hunter
140. The Rolling Head
141. The Call of the Owl [Cherokee]
142. The Evening Star and the Blackbird [Karasha]
143. The Road to Anahuac [Aztec]
144. The Jaguar Princess [Lenca]
145. The Hummingbird's Fear
146. Manabush [Menomi]
147. The Reed Dancers [Menomi]
148. He Wants to Fly [Menomi]
149. The Porcupine Quills [Menomi]
150. The Shut-Eye Dance [Menomi]
151. Mashenomak, The Fish Monster
152. The Hunting Medicine
153. How He Got Tongue [Cheyenne]
154. The Vampire Skeleton [Onondaga]
155. Forty Dead Men [Makah]
156. The Dead Wife [Alabama]
157. The Ghost Country [Kwakiutl]
158. The Two Jeebi-ug [Chippewa]
159. The Beginning Life of the Hummingbird [Mbaya]
160. Solitude Walker [Yuki]
161. Was it not an Illusion? [Uitoto]
162. The Flaming Rock [Omaha]
163. Earth Goddess [Aztec]
164. The Mother of All People [Okanagon]
165. The Emergence [Jicarilla Apache]

INDEX OF: Native American Legends, Myths and Lore

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